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SUMMARY:Apprenticeship compliance for your role
DESCRIPTION:Everyone involved in apprenticeship delivery should understand the fundamentals of apprenticeship compliance.\n\nWhether you’re involved in training\, curriculum design\, quality assurance\, employer engagement or administration – understanding what ESFA compliance means for your role is crucial in helping the organisation to draw down the right funding and mitigate risks.\n\nDesigned around the latest version of the funding rules and updated in-year\, this three-part series is designed to introduce all apprenticeship staff to the core apprenticeship rules and where their role fits in the compliance journey.\n\nPart 1 will look at the typical apprentice journey\, the core rules that matter and common solutions seen\, including the importance of the little details and core parts of the evidence pack.\n\nPart 2 will look at common errors and build an understanding of risk awareness as part of a transparent compliance culture.\n\nPart 3 will open the floor to core questions and discussions of best practice.\n\nYou will receive a CPD attendance certificate after the series\, as evidence of your personal development.\n\nThis series\, led by David Lockhart-Hawkins\, will help you to:\n\n 	Understand the core compliance rules for Apprenticeships\n 	Understand how they fit into the typical apprentice journey\n 	Know how funding works and what this means for your role\n 	Keep an eye out for common errors\n 	How to mitigate funding risks\n\nParticipants will also receive a useful workbook that highlights the key areas of the learning journey.\n\nThis series takes place on Monday 6 October (2-3.30pm)\, Wednesday 8 October (2-3.30pm) and Thursday 9 October (2-3.30pm).\n\nIf there are any dates/times where you aren’t available\, register anyway and we’ll send you the recording and slides.\n\nBooking Information\n\nTo enable your organisation to make the most of the training we have set the following price structure:\n\nSingle ticket: £195 + VAT\n\nGroup ticket: £395 + VAT\n\nDo you have a team who would all benefit from attending? This ticket allows for 10 registrations\, we want all your team to benefit.\n\nPlease get in touch if you would like to discuss a price for a larger group.\n\nWho is this webinar series for?\n\nPerfect for new starts across all departments as well as those requiring a refresher\, this is designed for all staff involved in administrating or delivering apprenticeships so they can develop a healthy understanding of compliance and how it relates to their job role.\n\nFacilitators and speakers\n\nDavid Lockhart-Hawkins\, SDN’s funding and compliance expert will facilitate this session.\n\nAfter working in the sector for over 20 years\, David has supported hundreds of providers to establish effective compliance systems. His in-depth understanding of funding and wider apprenticeship delivery gives him a unique insight into compliance across the organisation.\n\nSDN’s CPD is drawn from its work with over 1\,000 apprenticeship providers and thousands of staff – giving you a unique insights into practices that can drive the quality of your provision. Our sessions are also intensely practical – equipping you with the knowledge and resources to act and make improvements in your role and organisation.\n\nPayment\n\nTo keep costs down\, payment for the webinar series must be made online via credit card (book below). If you are a Local Authority\, and unable to book via card\, please email us on: events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk.\n\nTerms and Conditions\n\nThe Terms and Conditions (including our refund policy) for SDN events and webinars can be found here. When you make a booking\, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)\n\nAny questions\, please email the SDN events team: events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/apprenticeship-compliance-for-your-role/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshops & Masterclasses,Online & Webinars,CPD Courses
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SUMMARY:Mastering Project Management Skills for Apprentices
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\nIn today’s dynamic professional landscape\, project management isn’t just a skill—it’s a critical foundation for apprenticeship success and effective End-Point Assessment (EPA).\n\nThis practical\, hands-on webinar is designed for anyone supporting apprentices through projects\, helping them build confidence\, accountability\, and the capability to deliver results. Whether you’re guiding learners or developing curriculum\, you’ll gain valuable insight\, proven strategies\, and ready-to-use tools to embed robust project management practices within your programmes.\n\nLearn how strong project management can drive both EPA success and long-term organisational value.\n\nObjectives\n\nThis focused workshop will help you:\n\n– Understand the role of project management in apprenticeships\, EPA\, and personal development\n– Apply the project lifecycle in real apprenticeship contexts\n– Implement practical tools to plan\, monitor\, and complete projects\n– Support learners in building accountability\, time management\, and resilience\n– Overcome common project challenges and enable high-quality outcomes\n– Foster collaboration and stakeholder engagement\n– Take away actionable plans for integrating PM into your apprenticeship programmes\n\nFacilitator\nChristine Edwards QTLS\, Creating Excellence\n\nClick here to find out more information or to register.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/mastering-project-management-skills-for-apprentices/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Empowering Learners with Digital Skills for Life and Work
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\nDigital capability is no longer optional—it’s a core life skill\, as vital as maths and English. Whether it’s managing everyday online tasks or thriving in a fast-changing workplace\, learners need the confidence and skills to succeed in a digital world.\n\nThis interactive webinar will:\n\nDemystify the digital skills landscape—exploring why digital capability is now central to employability\, inclusion and lifelong learning.\nClarify EDS and DFSQs—understanding how they connect\, and what this means for your delivery.\nProvide practical strategies—showing how to embed digital skills seamlessly across programmes\, from adult education to apprenticeships.\nConnect digital to sustainability and progression—highlighting how building capability supports Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and learner futures.\nYou’ll leave with clear\, actionable ideas to strengthen your organisation’s digital skills offer—and to better equip your learners to live\, work and progress with confidence.\n\nObjectives\n\nBy the end of this session\, delegates will:\n\nNavigate the policy landscape with confidence—understanding the role of Essential Digital Skills (EDS) and Digital Functional Skills (DFSQs) in today’s learning and employability agenda.\nSpot opportunities to embed digital learning across existing programmes\, apprenticeships and adult provision.\nApply practical strategies to build both staff and learner confidence in using and developing digital skills.\nMake clear connections between digital capability\, employability\, inclusion and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).\nTake away tools and prompts to review and enhance their organisation’s current digital skills strategy.\n\nFacilitator\n\nChristine Edwards\, QTLS\, Creating Excellence\n\nClick here to find out more information or to register.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/empowering-learners-with-digital-skills-for-life-and-work/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Understanding Apprenticeship Off the Job training in 2025/26
DESCRIPTION:Are your organisation’s models for planning and delivery compliant with the new 25/26 apprenticeship funding rules\, and are you adopting best practice models for change?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrom August 1st 2025 there will be significant changes to the compliance rules and operational implementation requirements for off the job training (OTJT). The publishing of new minimum hours per Apprenticeship standard and flexibilities of duration affect compliance in a significant way and could be a risk to funding if you do not manage change effectively.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe’ll help you to understand: \n\n\n\n\n\n 	The new published minimums for OTJT\n 	The transition timeframe\n 	Rules on planning and distributing off the job hours\n 	How to apply recognition of prior learning to content and price\n 	Monitoring ‘Active learning’ in 25-26\n 	How to use the new rules to open up new opportunities for business\n\n\n\n\n \n\nAbout your session\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe webinar will be facilitated by SDN Strategic Associate\, David Lockhart-Hawkins. After working in the sector for over 20 years\, David has experience of working with hundreds of high performing apprenticeship organisations over the last twenty years\, including some of the UK’s largest\, highest quality\, specialist and new providers.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis series is for anyone involved in planning or monitoring the design and implementation of off the job hours so could include quality\, compliance and finance from practitioners to leaders.\n\n\n\n\n\n“David’s knowledge and expertise is unparalleled.”\n – Event attendee \n\n\n\n\n \nBooking and payment: \n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou can either attend live session or be sent the recording and materials if you prefer to review them in your own time. You can also mix and match for whatever works best for your schedule.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you’re a public sector body (e.g. Local Authority)\, and unable to book via card\, please email us. When you make a booking\, you agree to these Terms and Conditions (including those who request a booking via email and invoice)\n\nSDN CPD is designed for Government funded Training Providers. If you’re not a Government funded Training Provider but are still interested in attending please email events@strategicdevelopmentnetwork.co.uk to discuss your attendance in more detail before booking.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/understanding-apprenticeship-off-the-job-training-in-2025-26/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Embedding Safeguarding and Prevent into the Curriculum for 2025
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\nJoin us for a highly practical and forward-thinking webinar designed for leaders and decision-makers across the provider sector.\n\nTogether\, we’ll explore how to embed inclusion at every level of governance and leadership\, ensuring it becomes a driving force behind strategy and day-to-day operations.\n\nDrawing on the Ofsted framework\, best practice from providers\, and the expertise of governance board members and leaders\, this session will equip you with tangible tools and approaches to:\n\nLead with social conscience.\nBuild inclusive\, equitable cultures.\nDrive genuine impact for learners and staff alike.\nBy the end\, you’ll walk away with a clear strategic roadmap to strengthen your organisation’s inclusive practices and demonstrate leadership with impact.\n\nObjectives\n\nAttendees will:\n\nUnderstand the critical role of governance and leadership in embedding inclusive practices across the organisation.\nLearn how to cultivate a socially conscious\, inclusive culture that benefits both learners and staff.\nGain clarity on the Ofsted inspection requirements for inclusive practice and what they mean in practical terms.\nExplore how to personalise the learner journey – from onboarding to progression – to ensure every learner has the chance to succeed.\nTake away real-world examples of setting personal Inclusion\, Equity & Diversity (IED) objectives for leaders.\n\nFacilitator\n\nMaureen Deary\, FES Consultant\n\nClick here to find out more information or to register.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/embedding-safeguarding-and-prevent-into-the-curriculum-for-2025-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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SUMMARY:Designated Safeguarding Lead Training
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\nIt is a statutory obligation for those with a lead or designated professional role for safeguarding to meet a ‘robust two yearly training’ requirement. Having completed safeguarding awareness training\, this webinar equips professionals to perform their senior safeguarding function.\n\nAELP are delighted to be working with Education Child Protection (ECP) to offer this course\, which holds 6 Continuous Professional Development (CPD) credits. When certificated\, delegates can use the ECP centre number to record the activity as CPD.\n\nPlease note: Delegates will be required to attend both sessions fully in order to receive the CPD credits. If you don’t attend both sessions and participate you will not be eligible for a certificate. Please note that attendance is monitored by the software.\n\nObjectives\n\nThis in-depth webinar will cover:\n\nUnderstanding of the Safeguarding Framework\, including legislation and statutory guidance;\nEffective implementation of Duty of Care within the role of the Designated Safeguarding Lead;\nExploration of effective and robust record keeping;\nUnderstanding the referral process and effective information sharing\, and mental capacity;\nResponding effectively to whistleblowing concerns;\nUnderstanding of thresholds and risk analysis within the context of safeguarding;\nManagement of safeguarding across challenging topics including Domestic Abuse\, ‘so-called’ Honour Based Abuse\, Exploitation including Radicalisation\, Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (child on child abuse)\, Mental Health and Trauma Informed Practice.\nFor more information on course content and outcomes please watch this video:\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\nCarly Spicer\, Education Consultant\, ECP Safeguarding\n\nPlease note\, you must attend BOTH days to receive your CPD certification.\n\nClick here to find out more information or to register.
URL:https://www.fenews.co.uk/event/designated-safeguarding-lead-training-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online & Webinars
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